Major Spoilers Question of the Day: Stunt Casting Edition

I’m not sure where the term “stunt casting” in reference to an artist drawing a real person into their art came from, but I choose to credit it to my own assessments of the art of Alex Ross. Depending on the context, it’s a trick that can be wonderful, but for every Super Marilyn, there seem to be half a dozen ‘Deodato-tracing-Tommy-Lee-Jones-headshots-in-Thunderbolts’ incidents, leading to today’s likeness-rights query…

The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) thinks that perhaps the Ultimate Marvel Universe using Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, accidentally creating a pillar of the MCU is way up there, asking: What’s the most successful example of artistic stunt casting in comic/art history?

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